A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning
a gel-chip bonded to an interface card Slivers are used for many purposes; removable data storage, credit chips, recorded media transfer, computer memory backup, etc
A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning
A sliver of something is a small thin piece or amount of it. Not a sliver of glass remains where the windows were. a small pointed or thin piece that has been cut or broken off something sliver of (slive (11-19 centuries), from slifan)
The term comes from medieval Anglo-Saxon words sleave, slive, meaning to split or slit Sliver has no twist and is the produce of the carding process and drawing process on the cotton system Sliver consists of a continuous rope of parallel fibers of cotton, wool, rayon, or some other material, with no twist applied
a ropelike strand of soft cotton about the diameter of a broom stick In cotton production, "sliver" is pronounced with a long "i"; in worsted production, with a short "i "
A term used to describe the geometry of a fibrous glass reinforcement in the forming operation, e g , 2K37 S/2 meaning a configuration in forming which makes a nominal fiber diameter in the "K" range which is 3700 yards to a pound and is split into two discrete bundles in the forming cake